View unanswered posts | View active topics
|
Spark
|
Post subject: Re: What Are You Reading Now?  Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:23 am |
|
|
| Living here |
 |
Joined: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:54 am
Posts: 762
Location: Why do you need to know that?
Gender: Female
|
Yesterday I checked out The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster at the school library. So far it's a very nice book. It's about a young boy named Milo who looks forward to nothing and is always rather bored. One day when he comes home from school, he finds a toy tollbooth in his bedroom. He decides to play the game that the instructions that it comes with tell him about, so he drives his toy car up to the tollbooth, puts a coin in the coin box, and continues driving. Then for some bizarre reason he is driving through the land of Expectations. It's a lot of fun to read because it plays with everyday sayings (In the city of Dictionopolis, they ate their words, literally.  ) and everything you know naturally.
_________________
^Scorpio^
I know, a really creative name for a scorpion...
I was ten, okay?
Last edited by Spark on Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
|
|
| Top |
|
 |
|
Spark
|
Post subject: Re: What Are You Reading Now? Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:29 pm |
|
|
| Living here |
|
Joined: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:54 am
Posts: 762
Location: Why do you need to know that?
Gender: Female
|
|
Currently, I've been reading Robinson Crusoe. I've just finished the first two pages. I'm thinking those Reading tests are inaccurate, for how can one have a 12.9+ reading level, and be confused by a 12.3 reading level book? Maybe the book was leveled inaccurately, like The Phantom Tollbooth, or maybe I'm just a nincompoop.
_________________
^Scorpio^
I know, a really creative name for a scorpion...
I was ten, okay?
|
|
| Top |
|
|
|
Fox Deimos
|
Post subject: Re: What Are You Reading Now? Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:49 am |
|
|
| Newcomer |
 |
 |
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:13 pm
Posts: 26
Location: Brazil
Gender: Male
|
|
Currently, I am reading a compilation of H.P. Lovecraft stories (released under the title of "The Horror at Red Hook", which is one of the stories included in the book). I just recently finished reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (great book, highly recommended)
|
|
| Top |
|
|
|
Cinematophile
|
Post subject: Re: What Are You Reading Now? Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:51 am |
|
|
| Living here |
|
 |
Joined: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:14 am
Posts: 818
Location: Oz
Gender: Male
|
|
"Lost Paradise and other poem"
_________________
"There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true".
— Richard Dawkins
|
|
| Top |
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum
|
|
